Data Monday: Mobile Spending

As the growth of mobile Internet access continues, here's a few recent data points on mobile spending:

U.S. cell phone users contributed about $4 million in 3 days to the Red Cross in $10 increments, by far the largest outpouring of support via mobile devices in history. (source)

On Avatar’s opening weekend, almost 10% of all ticket sales were via mobile. (source)

Users purchased 1.5 million eBay items from either the eBay mobile website or the company’s iPhone application over the recent holiday season. That’s three times the amount sold during the same period last year. (source)